By the time I met the founder Mark Birley at a dinner party in 1965, I was working as an assistant to the decorator John Fowler, who had been responsible for restoring the William Kent-designed ...

It was Mark Birley's home for nearly 30 years ... suggestively opulent interiors that warmth which surprised Freud. Its plumply upholstered rooms, densely hung with pictures and crowded with ...

Mark Birley had an unerring eye for the rightness ... Jebb, like Birley still in his early thirties, had already done extensive interiors work in London, turning Belgravia houses into flats ...

The lighting was soft, echoing the dimly lit interiors of Annabel’s ... But David Wynne-Morgan, a PR guru and one of Mark Birley’s oldest friends, disagrees. “She is completely wrong ...

Its current owner, Richard Caring, snapped up the coveted Birley Group (which ... update for 2015” the club’s interiors. The most noticeable alteration to Mark’s Club, though, will be ...

Iconic London hotspot Annabel's is auctioning off its interiors to raise money for ... hundreds of paintings collected by its founder Mark Birley and his interior designer Nina Campbell over ...

While Mark Birley's sale of iconic Mayfair club Annabel's to rag-trade tycoon Richard Caring ended his family's infighting over the nightspot, there remains, I can reveal, a delicate problem about ...

I have a particular fondness for the place, since I was introduced to it by its creator, the late Mark Birley. A perfect blend of luxury and comfort, there was none of the off-putting air of ...